Liam Kirkaldy
@liamkirkaldy
Comms and freelance journalism. Bylines in the FT, Guardian, the Times, Big Issue, the Herald, Scotsman etc. Still trying to convince the people of Nigeria to forgive Dundee United.
Disappointed to open this and learn the wee boy is in fact a man in his 60s. I mean, I know he said it but i feel like the BBC could have done more to challenge his claim.
Mandelson files show he accused Gordon Brown of working to undermine "successive Scottish leaders" in the Labour party... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
If anyone wants to make it. I won't like to you, yes it does stain
You might like to know that Police Scotland have posted this photo and statement following a recent whale sighting. "We are aware of sightings of a cetacean - believed to be a humpback whale - in the Beauly Firth between Inverness and Chanonry Point." I honestly don't know why I find this so funny.
Fair play to The National, this made me genuinely lol. Saving it for deployment on countless future group chats
I am, unfortunately, going to have to get either a scotland or dundee utd top with Robertson Carlos on the back. I don't even want to - the sheer number of letters will be very expensive - but it is clear I have no choice
The only thing on my Christmas list this year is a jumper saying "It's McGinning to look a lot like Christmas"
Why is the Fifa peace trophy composed of a rotting earth held up by decaying zombie hands??
It is bone numbingly cold in Edinburgh this evening, but on the other hand it was BEAUTIFUL up Arthur's Seat earlier on
My latest column, about a seagull I found oddly captivating, as well as other seagulls I have seen in the past. There wasn't space to cover all the seagulls I have interacted with, because the column is meant to be about football, but it has a few seagulls www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/issue-37/tan...
Would the Prime Minister consider voting for Nigel Farage at the next election? From these quotes I can't see why he wouldn't, unless he just thinks he would adopt the same policies more efficiently.
Listen I'm not meant to say anything because of the security involved but I've got it on good authority that the Hoppy in Meadowbank has been booked all day for some secretive event. The locals are raging - they haven't been this angry since Vincent was told his spaniel had to be kept on lead.
Poor guy's been monitoring a crust of bread and the remains of a clementine for 45 minutes now. He hasn't moved, just staring, staring, staring. Honestly I feel sorry for him sometimes.
Bit of soppy piece from me in latest issue of Nutmeg - on my decision to buy my toddler an adult size Dundee Utd shirt so I can give it to her when she turns 18, and how choosing to have a child represents an act of faith in the future of the world
It has unfortunately come to my attention that the toddler cannot distinguish between me and the Bookbug. She seems to think we are the same person. For context, this is what the Bookbug looks like.
Oh I see, so Glasgow dumps some dinosaur statues everywhere & we're all delighted, yet I release some live dinosaurs on my dinosaur island then leave some children trapped there, then accidentally release a T-Rex in San Francisco, then make very similar mistakes 3 or 4 more times, & I'm the bad guy?
Video footage of the excavation process. Unfortunately efforts have been hampered by some low level flooding, but that's common in this sort of mining operation.
🚨 Personal news 🚨 The dog found this incredibly valuable manky old plank in the sand, so I am pleased to announce we are now extraordinarily wealthy. Excavation is already well underway and it will be ready for market soon. I won't ever need to work again. What a day!